IBM Domino Designer Tip: Change measurement for notes-based designs
Wed, Feb 11th 2015 9:47a John JardinThis is a quick tip for those who want to change the unit of measure in IBM Domino Designer from inches to centimeters.
Inches are a default for IBM Domino Designer when setting up table designs and the like in Notes, but I prefer to use centimeters. To modify the measurement, do the following:
Open Domino Designer
Click on “FilePreferences”
Select “Regional Settings”
Select which Unit of Measurement you want to use
Click on “Ok”
Restart Domino Designer

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Webstorm Tip: Use Key Promoter to help you find Keyboard shortcuts
Thu, Oct 9th 2014 4:22a John JardinFor me, there are too many keyboard shortcuts to memorise in Webstorm IDE? Thanks to a nifty plugin, these shortcuts can be learnt on the fly.
Overview
What Key Promoter does is monitor your mouse clicks on Menus and Toolbars inside Webstorm. If a shortcut exists for where you mouse-clicked, Key Promoter will show you the Keyboard Shortcut command that you can use for that same action.
Firstly, where to find references to Keyboard Shortcuts
Note: The below instructions are for Mac, but Windows

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Appcelerator fix for Ti.Map on iOS after upgrading to Titanium 3.4.0
Fri, Oct 3rd 2014 3:46a John JardinThis is a quick tip on how to get Ti.Map working again on your iOS7 builds after upgrading Titanium to SDK 3.4.0.
For the sake of those who just want to know how to fix the problem and not why it occurred, I will commence this post with the fix and then after that explain what I assumed happened.
How to fix the issue
In Finder, navigate to “Library > Application Support > Titanium > modules > iphone > ti.map“
Starting with the latest version of Ti.Map, open the releva

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Appcelerator Tip: Switch between iOS SDKs for mobile app development
Wed, Oct 1st 2014 9:37a John JardinThanks to Apple forcing my hand by auto installing Xcode 6, I had to quickly manage multiple versions of Xcode on my mac for Appcelerator mobile development.
Why multiple versions?
Xcode 6 has the iOS 8 SDK and Simulator by default. For some reason, I couldn’t get it to include the iOS7 SDK, which is what I require for my current development projects. This meant that I needed Xcode 5 back on my machine. I was quite nervous to delete Xcode 6 and replace it with Xcode 5 again, so I decided t

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Calling on iOS, Android and Appcelerator mobile developers in Gauteng, South Africa
Wed, Sep 17th 2014 3:47a John JardinAre you a native iOS or Android Developer? If not, have you developed mobile apps for iOS and Android using Appcelerator or something similar? We’re hiring!
Our mobile division is expanding at an exciting rate. We are looking to all mobile developers who meet the above pre-requisites and who are interested in joining our team.
We are based in Centurion, Pretoria in Gauteng, South Africa. We’re primarily interested in permanent positions, where temporary/contract positions would only

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Bluemix iOS Push Notifications Tutorial: Part 3 – The APNS Lifecycle
Tue, Sep 2nd 2014 1:48p John JardinIn this blog post, I provide a brief overview of Apple’s Push Notification Lifecycle and where IBM Bluemix fits in.
Quick Notes
This Blog Post is Part 3 of a Tutorial Series on IBM Bluemix and iOS Push Notifications.
My aim in this Blog Post is to help you understand Push Notifications when it comes to Apple Mobile Devices (iPhones/iPods/iPads).
Overview
When it comes to including Push Notification functionality in your iOS mobile app, the functionality itself is quite simple and straigh

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Bluemix iOS Push Notifications Tutorial: Part 2 – Minimum Requirements
Mon, Aug 11th 2014 11:55a John JardinIn this post, I’m going to quickly highlight a few requirements before we officially get going with the Bluemix iOS Push Notification Tutorial Series.
1. Mac OSX and Xcode
For those out there new to iOS Development, you cannot test and deploy iOS Applications to devices unless you do it via an Apple Operating System. While you can follow this tutorial using Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8), I’ll be using and recommend Mavericks (OSX 10.9).
Then, you will need to download Xcode. Xcode is App

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IBM Bluemix iOS Push Notifications Tutorial: Part 1 – Overview
Sun, Aug 3rd 2014 1:49p John JardinThis is a short video series that I’m planning for the very near future, on how to get the Bluemix Quickstart Push Sample Project running on your Apple devices.
Purpose of this Tutorial
While the Bluemix team do well to make these sample projects as easy to implement as possible and provide the supporting documentation and instructions, this process is quite daunting from my experience. My goal is to take you through the entire process from having very little already set up, to running the

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Possible fix for Error 404 when logging into Bluemix via cf
Thu, Jun 19th 2014 8:41a John JardinIn the following Node.js Tutorial provided on the IBM Bluemix Cloud environment, you get asked to log in to Bluemix via cf (Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface) using the following command:
cf login -a https://api.mybluemix.net -o -s
For some reason, I kept getting the following error:
It seems the Endpoint URL changed, but even then, the above command didn’t work after using the new Endpoint URL. After some troubleshooting I finally managed to log in by doing the following:
In Termi

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TIP: Create global batch files for use in Terminal
Thu, Jun 12th 2014 7:44a John JardinI’m slowly but surely becoming a huge fan of running my development workflows through Terminal on my Mac, especially in the case of mobile development using Appcelerator Titanium. This is a quick tip to show you how to group terminal commands into batch files and have these batch files accessible anywhere when working in Terminal.
NOTE
I haven’t moved to Mavericks as yet, so my example below applies to Mountain Lion, but should also apply to Mavericks
In my example below, my batch f